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...business of baseball risky enough. Think again. Last week Steinbrenner was at the starting gate of Florida's Pompano Park Harness Raceway, sitting in a sulky alongside such sporting celebs as Writer George Plimpton and Yankee Hall of Famer Whitey Ford. "When you become a businessman you become stagnant in some ways," explains Steinbrenner, who owns a trotter and a pacer. "You don't do as many of the exciting and dangerous things you used to do. It was skydiving or this." Of course, if Steinbrenner is still thrill seeking after winning the charity race, he can always bring back...
...organization called the New People's Army. Though the insurgency is concentrated on Mindanao and some other southern islands, it spread after the Aquino assassination to 60 of the country's 74 provinces. In addition, the killing of Aquino created a nationwide crisis of confidence that caused the already stagnant economy to spiral downward, even as most other Southeast Asian nations were prospering. After the assassination, says an American official, "all these concerns took a quantum leap...
True, an "apolitical," bureaucratic council would be ripe material for more snide columns, and a model of stagnant unresponsiveness to student concerns...
...view of the British as parachuting | angels of mercy. Her one great moment of idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that sustains and destroys her life. Progressive change seemed possible then, but in domestic harness in the stagnant '50s, she can only rearrange the furniture. When the mood comes on her she can crack the crockery over her considerate husband's head to provoke an explosion of savage vitality. With this "psychiatric cabaret," Susan shows she wants everything on her own terms. Plenty is not enough...
...crucial time for the U.S. economy, which has been almost stalled. The gross national product, after expanding at a 6.8% pace in 1984, grew at an annual rate of only 1.2% in the first half of this year. Housing starts are falling, and industrial production is virtually stagnant. One sign that growth may be reviving, however, is a recent dip in unemployment. After being stuck at 7.3% for six months, the jobless rate dropped to 7% in August. The fall in black teenage unemployment, from about 40% to 35%, was particularly encouraging. Much of the improvement, though, came because many...